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No. 560,456. Patented May 19, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

AUGUST IV. H. VVOLTERS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE LEROIFURNITURE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION formingwpart of Letters Patent No. 560,456, dated May 19,1896.

Application filed May 27. 1895. Serial No. 550,825. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Auousr W11. WoL- TERS, of the city of St. Louis, inthe State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Tables, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof.

My invention relates to an improved table; and it consists in the novelconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved table. Fig.2 is an enlarged sectional View taken approximately 011 the indicatedline 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken approximately onthe indicated line 3 3 of Fig. 2, the table top and leaf being shown inthis View. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of one of the hinge-plates ofwhich I make use in carrying out my invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying. drawings, 1 indicates therectangular frame of a table, the same being of the usual constructionand supported on suitable legs or standards 2. Said frame 1 is providedwith an ordinary table-top 3, the edges of which extend past the sidesof the frame 1.

t at indicate ordinary table-leaves, the same being connected by hinges5 to the side edges of the tabletop 3. Formed in the top and bottomedges of the side rails of the frame 1 and at the centers thereof areslight recesses or depressions 6.

7 7 indicate hinge-plates of which I make use in carrying out myinvention, the same being constructed of ordinary metallic straps andhaving end portions 8, that extend at right angles to the body portions.In the ends of said end portions 8 are formed apertures 9. Theseright-angled extending portions 8 are located in the recesses 6, andscrews 10 pass through the apertures 9 and thus pivot or hinge saidplates to the side rails of the frame 1.

11 11 indicate leaf-supports, the ends 12 of which are cut or formed atslight angles relative to the top and bottom edges thereof. Formed inthe top and bottom edges of said leafsupports adjacent the rear ends 12thereof are recesses or cut-away portions 13,

in which the body portions of the hinge-plates 7 are located and held bymeans of screws 14, passing through suitable apertures formed in 5 5said plates. When said supports 11 are properly located and hinged tothe side rails of the frame 1, the lower rear ends of said supportswill, when said supports are moved at right angles-to the side rails ofthe frame, engage against the lower faces of the side rails of the frame1, while the upper rear edges of said supports will be a very slightdistance from the upper faces of said side rails, this being by reasonof the peculiar 6 3 formation of the rear edges of said supports. Byreason of this construction the'lower portion of the inner end of eachsupport 11 will first come in contact with one of said side rails, (whensaid support is placed in a position to support the table-leaf,) so thatthe inward movement of said lower portion is first arrested but theupper part is left free to continue its movement inward, whereby theouter end of the support will have a tendency 7 5 imparted to it to bethrown upward as the pressure exerted by the operators hand isincreased. A reference to Fig. 2 will show that the said supports aresubstantially in the form of a rectangle, so that when their inner uppercorners are forced inward and their lower inner corners are in contactwith the side rails of the table the outer upper corners mustnecessarilybe thrown upward in accordance wit-h the movement of similar devices inthe form of the well-known bell-crank and angular levers and bars. Thesupport 11 will be held in such elevated position by means of frictionalcontact of its upper outer corner with the under surface of thetable-leaf, the 0 friction generated at such point, as I have found,being amply sufficient for such purpose.

When it is desired to lower the leaves 4, the supports 11 are swunglaterally, as indicated by the arrow and dotted lines in Fig. 2, anduntil said supports lie immediately against the side railsof theframe 1. When in this position, they are beneath the protruding edges ofthe table-top 3, and the leaves 4 may be now swung downwardly and intovertical planes.

A table of my improved construction is simple and inexpensive. Theleaf-supports thereof are so constructed as to prevent the outer ends ofthe leaves from sagging or lowering into planes below the plane occupiedby the table-top when said leaves are in proper position, and saidleaf-supports may be folded against the sides of the frame and beneaththe protruding edges of the table-top when the leaves are not in use.

The improved table having the usual side rails, top and hinged leaves, aleaf-support 11 made of wood and provided on its inner end with angularmetallic hinge-plates 7 and thereby hinged to one of said side rails,and the inner end 12 of said support cut off at an AUGUST W. H. WOLTERS.

\Vitnesses:

MAUD GRIFFIN, J OHN C. HIGDON.

